Poll: Hands up those who like the "Modern UI"?

Which interface do you prefer?

  • prefer using Metro to the Win7 interface

    Votes: 49 27.8%

  • I prefer the Win7 interface to Metro.

    Votes: 98 55.7%

  • I'm undecided.

    Votes: 29 16.5%
  • Total voters
    176
It's sure is not killing me to use Metro. My only problems with it is the name and the power button, though I may compose a keyboard short-cut for shutting down.

I barely switch to Metro once I'm already on the desktop. What I really appreciate, however, is being able to quickly flick from the desktop to Metro when I want to launch a program that I would normally have to wade for via lists of folders in the old search menu.

Of course a choice of start, Metro or both would be a perfect solution but wouldn't coincide with Microsoft's agenda.

Now I only have short-cuts to folders on my desktop whereas I use Metro for shortcuts to software.
 
Something else I have found since finally getting 8 up and running without the dreaded 13% update issue is no improvement in boot times. On essentially a clean machine e.g. only progs installed are MS Office 2007, Picasa and 4 gig of pictures the boot time is 31 seconds - Windows 7 with exactly the same install was 32 seconds? All my docs etc. are held remotely on a NAS which is mapped but in essence stays asleep until the drive is woken up. This is on pretty new hardware, Lappy with quad CPU and 6 gig of memory. Checked every driver and Windows claims all are up to date

I found this an interesting read and one cannot fail to notice how many of these blogs are now appearing.
 
Something is seriously wrong there. My laptop (Core i5 2430M, 16GB RAM, Geforce 525M) booting Windows 8 on a Seagate Momentus XT (500GB) is faster than my main PC (Core i7 3820, 32GB, Crossfire 6970s) booting off a 240GB OCZ Agility 3.

Windows 8 is many things, but slow at boot isn't one of them.

Although I will say that Office 2007 (and even Office 2010) is bad on Windows 8, you REALLY need to get 2013 on there, quickly.
 
I like on the start screen that you right click a program like firefox etc and you get the option to uninstall, open a new instance, run as admin, open file location and pin to taskbar these are probably the most likely things i'm interested in when talking about a program in this regard.
 
Zuban said:
I like on the start screen that you right click a program like firefox etc and you get the option to uninstall, open a new instance, run as admin, open file location and pin to taskbar these are probably the most likely things i'm interested in when talking about a program in this regard.
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You mean just like if you right click a file in the old Windows 7 Start Menu (other than uninstall)?
 
paradigm said:
You mean just like if you right click a file in the old Windows 7 Start Menu (other than uninstall)?
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lol yeah I like this way of working though instead of submenu's its all layed out infront with catagories instead, and its easy to grab them and arrange them by dragging them around, and a bit more focus on managing those programs hence the uninstall. Its just different and I prefer it to the old start menu.
 
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paradigm said:
Something is seriously wrong there. My laptop (Core i5 2430M, 16GB RAM, Geforce 525M) booting Windows 8 on a Seagate Momentus XT (500GB) is faster than my main PC (Core i7 3820, 32GB, Crossfire 6970s) booting off a 240GB OCZ Agility 3.

Windows 8 is many things, but slow at boot isn't one of them.

Although I will say that Office 2007 (and even Office 2010) is bad on Windows 8, you REALLY need to get 2013 on there, quickly.
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Well I don't think it is MS 2007 if I'm honest. When I installed previously i.e. when it wouldn't install the MS updates beyond 13%, Office was installed then yet the boot times were much quicker. The only two things that have changed is the cumulative update, the 6872 one I think it was plus I installed Media Centre.
 
theheyes said:
What's so bad about Office 2010 on Windows 8? Works fine for me.
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Office 2010 isn't as bad as 2007, but both are slow and have higher resource use than 2013.

The 2013 interface just feels more in keeping with Windows 8, the transition effects, the fact that the majority of the interface is now based on html5, just everything about it works better and flows better with Win 8.
 
Yeah I do like Office 15, but I used 2010 throughout most of the Windows 8 previews and RTM without a single issue. I had more problems with the former tbh but it was in beta to be fair.
 
As a quick test I just disabled Media Centre and knocked 9 seconds off that boot time? What I have noticed is that following the Blue Window and swirling circle the screen goes blank before the Welcome screen and that is the longest part of the load cycle by far. Not sure what Windows is doing during that period.
 
My laptop has the Media Center add-on installed and configured. The whole boot process takes 9-10 seconds, and thats a mechanical drive.
 
Faustus said:
As a quick test I just disabled Media Centre and knocked 9 seconds off that boot time? What I have noticed is that following the Blue Window and swirling circle the screen goes blank before the Welcome screen and that is the longest part of the load cycle by far. Not sure what Windows is doing during that period.
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It should be non critical drivers and services at that point, before winlogon.
 
All PC screens will be touch in 3-4 years time. Touch is changing how we use our devices.

MS was caught sleeping with tablets, they aren't messing around now. It's not a bad OS for a desktop but without touch you can't get the best out of it.

A few years ago I would have argued that mouse and keyboard will never go away - how naïve. Things are changing with how we interact with devices and this is just the start.

Just my opinion obviously.
 
I'm finding Metro IE really enjoyable. Loving the right click to reveal thumbnails of open tabs and frequent / favs when opening new tabs.

Just finding much easier to use and the full screen is fantastic. Makes desktop browsers seem messy.
 
In my opinion mouse and keyboard will never go away, we're just embracing touch as a first class input method now.

Microsoft were touting the tablet form factor over a decade ago. Apple just got a brilliant device to market more quickly.
 
Glaucus said:
Why would ms offer an option, metro and the store is the future for ms profit. It has to be pushed and actually most people like it once they get used to it.
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Source?

Spend a bit of time with it and get your muscle memory to the new OS and its great.
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In a traditional desktop environment I right click and get a context menu right where my mouse is. In metro apps I right click and the options appear in a bar down at the bottom of the screen. How is that a "great" change? And there's a bunch of annoying junk like that, that's ill suited to desktop use.

You keep saying that people are just reluctant to change. I'm a decently experienced Linux user and have used multiple different desktop environments. I'm far from a stranger to change, but not all change is good. The more I use the Metro UI, the more stuff annoys me about it.

And I actually like the changes to the desktop in Win 8, that's the reason I'm still using it.
 
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